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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Home from The Sewing Summit!

I have to say that the Sewing Summit was more amazing then I expected it was an awesome sundae with extra awesome sauce sprinkled with awesome! I arrived with my Portland posse, Jen (Betty Crocker Ass) and Jill (Made on Main St), a day early on Thursday and I am so glad we did because it gave us a chance to spend some time with a smaller group of women and go on the shop hop Friday morning. While I feel lucky to have access to great fabric stores in Portland I did manage to find some fabrics I just couldn't resist and all of the stores we visited had discounts for us and fun giveaways. I also had the chance to meet my roommate Valerie who couldn't have worked out better considering we had never met. We both enjoyed late night reading even though we were up so late not much reading happened. Here she is taking photos of our collective shop hop haul.

Valerie in our fancy room.

My fabric is the left side but I collected quite a bit more by the end of the weekend!

Friday night was the opening reception where there were so many familiar faces/blogs. The giveaways kept going all weekend and I won a box of fat quarters!

I was able to go out to dinner with my brother who lives in SLC Friday and Saturday night and it was great to catch up with him.

But I had to get back to the hotel both nights for a fat Quarter swap and tutorials. Nothing like trying to explain a Sewing Summit to your 28 year old brother. I think he imagined circles of older women sitting around hand quilting (which really would have been fun) not women of all ages staying up until 1:30 sewing and laughing until tears ran down faces or you thought you'd wet your pants. I didn't take as many photos as I'd hoped and the lighting was a challenge but here's a few from the weekend.